China: Bayonets and Bomb Shelters

After eight weeks, the Soviet-Chinese border
talks in Peking appear to have made no progress. The reason for the
deadlock may well be that the Soviets refuse to withdraw their troops
from disputed areas of the 4,500-mile border until the Chinese quit
insisting on a complete Soviet renunciation of the czarist treaties
that ceded vast areas of China to Russia.

With the talks going nowhere, China is preparing for the worst. The
latest evidence of Peking's efforts to condition its huge populace to
the possibility of war comes from two U.S. citizens who...